Recent Updates
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US appeals court revisits Texas voter ID law
Legal News Feed 05/24/2016A federal appeals court is set to take a second look at a strict Texas voter ID law that was found to be unconstitutional last year. Texas' law requires residents to show one of seven forms of approved identification. The state and other supporters s...
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Spanish court seeks arrest of Putin-linked Russians
Legal News Feed 05/08/2016A Spanish judge wants two senior Russian officials with links to the Kremlin arrested so they can be questioned in court about suspected money laundering and criminal association. National court judge Jose de la Mata Amaya has issued international ar...
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Tribunal: India, Italy should agree on Italian marine's bail
Legal News Feed 05/06/2016India and Italy should work toward an agreement to allow an Italian marine to return home while an arbitration process continues in the fatally shootings of two Indian fishermen in 2012, a tribunal said Tuesday. The two countries should present their...
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Iran's president slams US court ruling on frozen assets
Legal News Feed 05/05/2016Iran's president said Wednesday that a U.S. court ruling that allows for the seizure of Iranian assets amounts to theft and indicates continued "hostility" toward his country. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that the families of victims of a 1...
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Supreme Court's future hangs in the balance in 2016
Legal News Feed 03/29/2016Hillary Clinton said Monday that the future of the Supreme Court would hang in the balance of the 2016 election, warning that Republican front-runner Donald Trump would bring division to the court if he was allowed to shape its future. Clinton said T...
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Teen changes plea to guilty in deaths of mother, stepfather
Legal News Feed 03/16/2016A northern Wisconsin woman changed her plea to guilty Friday in the slaying of her mother and stepfather in a deal that has prosecutors recommending a 40-year prison sentence. Ashlee Martinson, who was 17 at the time of the March 2015 killings, faces...
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Plagued by delays, California high-speed rail heads back to court
Legal News Feed 02/07/2016California voters embraced the idea of building the nation's first real high-speed rail system, which promised to whisk travelers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in under three hours, a trip that can take six hours or more by car. Eight years after...
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Rome court acquits ex-Vatican accountant of corruption
Legal News Feed 01/15/2016A lawyer for an Italian monsignor who was fired from his Vatican accountant's job says a Rome court has acquitted his client of corruption. Prosecutors alleged Monsignor Nunzio Scarano was involved in a purported plot to use a private plane to try to...
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Kansas Court of Appeals mulls state protections for abortion
Legal News Feed 12/12/2015A lawsuit blocking Kansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on a common second-trimester method for terminating pregnancies forced an appeals court Wednesday to wrestle with whether the state constitution independently protects abortion rights. Abortion oppon...
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Religious clerks in Kentucky follow law, but see conflict
Legal News Feed 09/17/2015Clerk Mike Johnston prays twice a day, once each morning and once each night, and asks the Lord to understand the decision he made to license same-sex marriage. “It’s still on my heart,” said Johnston, whose rural Carter County sits just to the east ...
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Ohio court: Wording of pot legalization ballot is misleading
Legal News Feed 09/15/2015Ohio's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that part of the ballot wording describing a proposal to legalize marijuana in the state is misleading and ordered a state board to rewrite it. Supporters of the measure, known in the fall election as Issue 3, cha...
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Burkina Faso court rejects candidate of former ruling party
Legal News Feed 09/01/2015A court in Burkina Faso on Saturday rejected the chosen presidential candidate of the former ruling party, prompting threats of a boycott of the vote in October. The presidential and legislative elections scheduled for Oct. 11 are intended to end one...